Comments by "" (@jmitterii2) on "NAFTA: 2 Decades and Over 900,000 U.S. Jobs Lost" video.

  1. Bill Clinton was a essentially the best republican money could buy. Essentially, we had a none-choice. Both candidates were of the same party. One just hood winked us, Clinton and some democratic congress people, some republicans such as those in Idaho even voted against NAFTA. But most Republicans did vote for NAFTA and Bill Clinton signed it. 102 democrats and 132 voted for NAFTA 156 democrates and 43 republicans voted no on NAFTA. and 1 Independent voted no in the House in 1993. Voting for the agreement were 27 Democrats and 34 Republicans; voting against it were 28 Democrats and 10 Republicans in the Senate 1993. It's when both parties literally became one corporate oligarchy bribed soaked puppet whores. I remember the day it was signed into law, my dad remarked, Reagan cut the throat of the working person, and Clinton pierced the heart of the working person he paraphrased Ross Perot at the time, the sucking sound will ruin us all. Later in economics class in college I would learn about the wonders of the maquiladora which is similar to molinos de grano (grain mills) now from my Mexican friends decry of people stuck working what they call as sweat shops. And we would use our pretend company in a scenario to open up these sweat shops. After the course was over, our economics professor asked us what we thought of maquiladora. All of us were even more against them. Our biggest concern, this causes the ecosystem that drives economies to deplete underlying demand harming everyone. Because you're essentially doing the same thing slavery had done, exploit workers that have very little benefit in return. Nobody wants to work at these sweat shops, and our food products caused many who were earning more on farms to lose those jobs, to then work at a sweat shop for even less in Mexico. And Americans lost decent paying manufacturing jobs, to work at less paying service sector jobs, and those manufacturing jobs left, their pay too fell. It hurt everyone. A vicious cycle. Our professor stated she was only concerned about quality issues, but had never thought about the vicious cycle issue... WTF? https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/103-1993/h575 http://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/21/us/senate-roll-call-on-trade-pact.html
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